Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2019

Each targeted quest curates a collection of third-party apps, webtools, videos, games, and other resources that focus on particular math or reading skills identified by the teacher or from the student’s earlier work as an area of academic need. This can be incorporated into Google Classroom or another LMS that you use.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2024

Given the prevalence of these diverse brains, why do we continue to structure our classrooms and schools in ways that make it so hard for these kids? Grade levels and age-based grouping allow for standardized testing and standardized curriculum despite the fact that we know that our kids aren’t meant to fit a standard.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2021

One included academic standards for my state. The other was filled with the English language development (ELD) standards. My job was to ensure that my students, all of whom were categorized as English learners (ELs), met these grade-level and proficiency standards by the end of the year.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The principal's students were in an alternative setting and the main delivery and assessment of content came from an online course platform. The issue is effectively working alongside a platform that is delivering instruction and assessing students. Alignment to academic standards is usually more prominent and obvious.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

While Google Classroom and its accompanying suite of tools is immensely popular in education -- especially at the secondary level -- Seesaw is a fast-growing and user-friendly digital platform for teachers to assign work, engage with students, and provide feedback, among other classroom activities. How do I set up my class in Seesaw?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

. — On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. Teachers rarely stand at the front of the classroom. There’s no one size fits all.”.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

The changes first impacted high schools, and in the past three years, the model has made its way into K-12 classrooms. Two recent state initiatives are defining a set of non academic work habits that contribute to student success , and developing a statewide performance-based assessment system.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

But while standardized test scores might improve, a recent study found that in 63% of classrooms, students aren’t using technology to “solve problems, conduct research, or to work collaboratively.” We’ve made it our mission to build lessons that nurture 21st century academic success and empower extraordinary teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Small-group math work at Prairie Oak Elementary in Berwyn North School District 98 where, two years ago, just 14 percent of third-graders were able to do grade-level math. Researchers say many high-poverty kindergarten classrooms don’t teach enough math and the few lessons on the subject are often too basic. BERWYN, Ill. —

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Since the biennial test, called the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP, was first administered in the early 1990s, student achievement, particularly in math, steadily improved until the late 2000s, then flatlined. . Every state has its own annual assessments, but they vary in difficulty and how they are scored.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works with Remy Campbell on a smart board in her classroom. Most educators agree the Common Core standards are rigorous enough that students who meet these guidelines will be adequately prepared to pursue a career or a college degree after they graduate from the public school system.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

Disconnection between teaching and learning: Teachers often confuse covering the material with teaching to the kids—if they teach to understanding, then the classroom becomes a different environment. Does everyone feel valued? To pursue equity, schools must understand three key principles. In addition, Domenech has served on the U.S.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 10, 2015

How To Add Rigor To Any Lesson, Unit, Or Assessment. Barbara Blackburn, author of “Rigor is not a 4-Letter Word,” shared 5 “myths” concerning rigor, and they are indicative of the common misconceptions: that difficult, dry, academic, sink-or-swim learning is inherently rigorous. by Terry Heick. What does it mean?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Classroom design. WiFi signal, outlets, access to frequently move around the class, ways to not disrupt other classrooms with “noise.” ” Your classroom has become the world’s classroom–more of a vessel or template than something your own. Usually learning happens in your classroom.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 25, 2016

The digital resources in the Knovation repository—including videos, games, podcasts and articles—have been selected, evaluated, tagged and aligned to academic standards. By paying for a license to the collection, McGraw-Hill can decide what it wants to do with the curated content, how it will display and be delivered, Wilhelm said.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

Researchers say many high-poverty kindergarten classrooms don’t teach enough math and the few lessons on the subject are often too basic. During the last school year, only 40 percent of fourth-graders nationwide scored at a proficient level in a nationwide math assessment. These goals still guide the district today.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In some cases that means being given more time on tests or being offered the option of using technology for written assignments; in other cases it means having an aide in the classroom working with them individually. Within each disability, there is variance in severity and how the disability reveals itself in a classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2016

Unlike groups based on race or disability or other factors, English learners are, by definition, a transient group. Students who meet English proficiency standards – and are therefore more likely to do well on the state’s exams – cease to be tracked as English learners. JCPS has earmarked an additional $1.2

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2022

They argue the solution isn’t to get rid of assessments, however, but to redesign them to be more effective. Over the past two years — when almost all state standardized tests were suspended — periodic assessments provided educators with some data to understand what kids learned — or didn’t. is an assessment of my students.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

If so, are you also a classroom work foreman, logistics manager, guide, drill sergeant, disciplinarian, cheerleader, data entry clerk, cultural advocate, or analyst? They deliver specific chunks of knowledge that are outlined by academic standards and required by school policy in the curriculum, not random tangents of knowledge.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

In fall 2007, Larry Berger, CEO of Wireless Generation (now Amplify) was invited to submit a paper to an “Entrepreneurship in Education” working group led by Rick Hess, the director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. I’d recently moved to Washington, D.C. and he asked me to co-author the piece.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

The team selected 60 finalists across three age groups (13-14, 15-16, 17-18) in May, and yesterday announced the winners and runner-ups in each age group. Luberoff says that end-of-year assessments in 35 U.S. It’s been our desire for a while to go deeper to engage with students in classrooms,” says Luberoff.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 21, 2021

Self-assess podcast (it can be unpublished) through self-created rubric. Design a 6 week project that addresses some self-selected local challenge through collaboration with local experts or entrepreneurs—or groups at an elderly home or related organization, for that matter. This ideally would start outside the classroom. .

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

That’s the idea at least behind the latest summative assessments from Project Lead the Way , a project-based STEM curriculum, which is introducing new tech-based question types to measure a raft of noncognitive skills from collaboration to general problem solving (in addition to subject-specific questions about engineering or coding concepts).

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

He was so absorbed in email that it took until Baltimore before Siegelman spotted KKR’s Richard Sarnoff, who chairs the firm’s media, entertainment and education group, across the aisle. EdReports has become a real big deal in K-12 publishing,” he said, referring to the nonprofit that reviews textbooks for alignment to academic standards.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 22, 2015

Back-to-school content is usually focused on teachers and students, and as these two groups will have the largest workload ahead of them, that makes sense. So, in pursuit of that transparency, below are some questions parents ideally would be asking you to better clarify what’s happening in the classroom. Your shoulders, then.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Tech & Learning Rounds Up a Summary of New Tools for Schools Software & Online GOOGLE FOR EDUCATION UPDATES ( edu.google.com ) Google for Education announced updates and new tools to help teachers keep innovation alive in their classrooms.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 11, 2015

The difference in the performance between each ESEA subgroup (as defined in this document) within a participating LEA or school and the statewide average performance of the LEA’s or tate’s highest achieving subgroups in reading/language arts and mathematics as measured by the assessments required under the ESEA. 105-244, 20 U.S.C.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

When it comes to digital tools in classrooms, it was the same o’, same o.’ Lesson 1: When it comes to student use of classroom technologies, talk and action are both important. These distinctions are crucial in making sense of what teachers do once the classroom door closes. Differentiating between the two is crucial.

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Technology Policies Education Academic Standards 78

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2019

On a muggy fall morning, pre-K teacher Ruth Shows inspected the work of students in her classroom, stepping over a cluster of little learners sprawled on the carpet. In the fall of 2013 , two district pre-K classrooms were paid for with limited state taxpayer money, but more than a dozen families remained on a waitlist.

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